"Join the Navy", they said. "See the galaxy", they said.
That sure had worked out well for you so far. Granted, your initial years of service had went off without much of a hitch, but since then that whole business with Corellia's secession ambitions had turned into what was now a proper civil war. And you, rising stars amongst the ranks of Galactic Alliance Fleet Intelligence, were quickly transferred to the newly formed Galactic Alliance Guard only to find yourselves in the middle of nowhere, expected to turn a largely ceremonial planetary militia into a proper fighting force capable of fending off a Corellian-backed insurgency.